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10 Meta FAIR research scientists
These ten current Meta FAIR research scientists hold research scientist roles at Meta tied to FAIR, Fundamental AI Research. A reader can learn what research work at Meta FAIR involves from people who have done it.
Professionals to explore
01—10Adina Williams
LinkedInExperience: AI Research Scientist · Meta
AI Research Scientist at Meta since October 2018, based in New York; the profile describes a research scientist role at FAIR NYC focused on NLP, computational linguistics and cognitive science, and a research team on measuring generative model performance and safety. The profile also lists a research scientist row at Facebook since 2020. Previous roles include Postdoctoral Researcher at Facebook (2018–2020).
Brandon M. Wood
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist, Fundamental AI Research at Meta · Meta
Research Scientist, Fundamental AI Research at Meta since February 2022, based in Berkeley; the profile describes FAIR work on AI for chemistry at the intersection of deep learning, chemistry and physics, and large-scale computing. Previous roles include NESAP for Learning Postdoctoral Fellow at Berkeley Lab (2019–2022) and Graduate Student Researcher at University of California, Berkeley (2013–2019).
Christoph Feichtenhofer
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist, Manager at FAIR · Meta
Research Scientist, Manager at FAIR at Meta since April 2018, based in Menlo Park; the profile headline describes a director and research scientist role at FAIR. Previous roles include Postdoc at Technische Universität Graz (2017–2018), Research Assistant at Technische Universität Graz (2014–2017) and Visiting Researcher at University of Oxford (2015–2018).
Daniel Levine
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist, FAIR Chemistry · Meta
Research Scientist, FAIR Chemistry at Meta since February 2024, based in the San Francisco Bay Area; the profile describes developing AI models for materials science and climate problems on the FAIR Chemistry team. Previous roles include Principal Scientist I at Schrödinger (2018–2024) and Post-Doctoral Researcher at University of California, Berkeley (2015–2018).
Hady Elsahar
LinkedInExperience: Staff Research Scientist · Meta
Staff Research Scientist at Meta since January 2025, based in Germany; the profile describes a research scientist and team lead role at FAIR focused on generative AI and watermarking techniques. The profile also lists a Senior Research Scientist row at Meta since 2022. Previous roles include Senior Research Scientist at NAVER LABS Europe (2021–2022) and Research Scientist at NAVER LABS Europe (2019–2021).
Hu Xu
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Meta
Research Scientist at Meta since May 2020, based in the Seattle area; the profile describes a research role at FAIR with interests in self-supervised learning and meta-learning, work on Meta CLIP and VideoCLIP, and core authorship on Llama 3. Previous roles include a research internship at Facebook (2019) and a scientist internship at Amazon Web Services (2018).
Huy V. Vo
LinkedInExperience: AI Research Scientist · Meta
AI Research Scientist at Meta since November 2022, based in Paris; the profile describes a research role on the DINO team at FAIR, naming DINOv2, DINOv3 and data curation. Previous roles include PhD candidate in Computer Vision at Inria (2018–2022), PhD candidate (CIFRE) in Computer Vision at Valeo (2018–2022) and Research Assistant at Ecole normale supérieure (2018).
Kevin J Liang
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Meta
Research Scientist at Meta since August 2020, based in Menlo Park; the profile lists Fundamental AI Research (FAIR) work on egocentric computer vision and 3D perception since March 2021, after earlier work in Facebook AI Applied Research. Previous roles include PhD Candidate at Duke University (2015–2020) and internships at Facebook and Google.
Ping Yu
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Meta
Research Scientist at Meta since May 2022, based in Seattle; the profile headline describes Meta FAIR work on large language model reasoning and alignment. Previous roles include Research Intern at Facebook (2021), Research Intern at Amazon (2020), Research Intern at Tencent Americas (2020) and Research Assistant at University at Buffalo (2018–2020).
Shengyi Qian
LinkedInExperience: Research Scientist · Meta
Research Scientist at Meta since June 2024, based in Seattle; the profile describes work at Meta FAIR on multimodal embodied AI agents, especially for 3D scenes and robotics, after a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan. Previous roles include research internships at NVIDIA (2023–2024) and Meta (2021).
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's research area to your question, since computer vision, language and reasoning, AI for chemistry, watermarking and evaluation each involve different research work. Consider how long the person has been at FAIR, since longer tenure shapes how they can describe changes in how fundamental research connects to Meta's products.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How does a fundamental research team decide which problems to work on?
- 02How does FAIR research move into Meta's production models and products?
- 03What is different about open research at a large company compared with academia?
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